Eighteenth Annual SQuInT Workshop
Start Date: Feb 18, 2016 - 12:00 am
End Date: Feb 20, 2016 - 12:00 am
Host: University of New Mexico Center for Quantum Information and Control (CQuIC)
Location: Hyatt Regency Albuquerque, Albuquerque, New Mexico
Link: http://physics.unm.edu/SQuInT/2016/index.php
Invited Speakers
- Susan Coppersmith (Wisconsin)
- Jay Gambetta (IBM)
- Ronald Hanson (Delft)
- Seth Lloyd (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
- Peter Maunz (Sandia National Labs)
- Ashley Montanaro (Bristol)
- John Preskill (IQIM, Caltech): keynote speaker
- Cindy Regal (JILA, Boulder)
- Robert Schoelkopf (Yale)
- Stephanie Simmons (Simon Fraser)
Wednesday Program
| 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm | Welcome Reception and Cash Bar (Pavilion Court) |
| 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm | Check in and On-site Registration (Pavilion Landing) |
Thursday Program
| 7:00 am - 8:30 am | Continental Breakfast & Check in (Pavilion Court and Landing) |
| 8:30 am - 8:45 am | Opening Remarks (Pavilion I-III) |
SESSION 1: Loophole-free Bell test 1 (Pavilion I - III)Chair: Carlton Caves (New Mexico) | |
| 8:45 am - 9:30 am | Ronald Hanson, (TU Delft) From a loophole-free Bell test to a quantum Internet |
| 9:30 am - 10:00 am | Morgan Mitchell, (ICFO) Random number generation for loophole free Bell tests |
| 10:00 am - 10:30 am | Break (Pavilion Court) |
SESSION 2: Loophole-free Bell test 2 (Pavilion I - III)Chair: Michael Raymer (Oregon) | |
| 10:30 am - 11:00 am | Marissa Giustina, Zeilinger group (Vienna) A significant-loophole-free test of Bell's theorem with entangled photons |
| 11:00 am - 11:30 am | Lynden K. Shalm, Nam group (NIST, Boulder) A strong loophole-free test of local realism |
| 11:30 am - 12:00 pm | Scott Glancy, (NIST, Boulder) Data analysis for "A strong loophole-free test of local realism" |
| 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm | Lunch (Grand Pavilion IV, V, VI) |
SESSION 3: Semiconductor QIP and tomography (Pavilion I - III)Chair: Robin Blume-Kohout (Sandia) | |
| 1:30 pm - 2:15 pm | Susan Coppersmith, (Wisconsin-Madison) Building a quantum computer using silicon quantum dots |
| 2:15 pm - 2:45 pm | Seth Merkel, (HRL) Applying benchmarking protocols to encoded qubits with non-Markovian errors |
| 2:45 pm - 3:15 pm | Charles Baldwin, Deutsch group (New Mexico) Informational completeness in bounded-rank quantum-state tomography |
| 3:15 pm - 3:45 pm | Break (Pavilion Court) |
SESSION 4: Semiconductor qubits (experiment) (Pavilion I - III)Chair: Emily Pritchett (HRL) | |
| 3:45 pm - 4:30 pm | Stephanie Simmons, (Simon Fraser) Illuminating a path forward for silicon donor spin qubits |
| 4:30 pm - 5:00 pm | Patrick Harvey-Collard, Carroll group (Sandia) Nuclear-driven electron spin rotations in a coupled silicon quantum dot and single donor system |
SESSION 5: Poster Session and Reception (Fiesta Room, Fiesta Court and Enchantment Court) | |
| 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm | Poster Session and Reception |
Friday Program
| 7:00 am - 8:30 am | Continental Breakfast (Pavilion Court) |
SESSION 6: Neutral atoms (Pavilion I - III)Chair: Grant Biedermann (Sandia) | |
| 8:30 am - 9:15 am | Cindy Regal, (JILA, Colorado) Interfering and entangling individual neutral atoms |
| 9:15 am - 9:45 am | Adam Kaufman, Greiner group (Harvard) Measuring entanglement entropy and local observables in a thermalizing many-body state |
| 9:45 am - 10:15 am | Break (Pavilion Court) |
SESSION 7: Computer Science (Pavilion I - III)Chair: Jon Yard (Microsoft) | |
| 10:15 am - 11:00 am | Ashley Montanaro, (University of Bristol) Quantum speedup of backtracking and Monte Carlo algorithms |
| 11:00 am - 11:30 am | Rolando Somma, (Los Alamos National Laboratory) A Trotter-Suzuki approximation for Lie groups with applications to Hamiltonian simulation |
| 11:30 am - 12:00 pm | Vadym Kliuchnikov, QuArC (Microsoft) A framework for approximating qubit unitaries |
| 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm | Lunch (Grand Pavilion IV, V, VI) |
SESSION 8: Ions (Pavilion I - III)Chair: Hartmut Häffner (UC Berkeley) | |
| 1:30 pm - 2:15 pm | Peter Maunz, (Sandia) High-fidelity two-qubit quantum gates in a scalable surface ion trap |
| 2:15 pm - 2:45 pm | Ting Rei Tan, Wineland group (NIST, Boulder) Recent progress on trapped-ion quantum information processing at NIST |
| 2:45 pm - 3:15 pm | Erik Urban, Häffner group, (UC Berkeley) Towards a new class of trapped ion experiments with ion rings |
| 3:15 pm - 4:00 pm | Break (Pavilion Court) |
SESSION 9a: Quantum control, simulation, and application (Pavilion II - III)Chair: Elohim Becerra (New Mexico) | |
| 4:00 pm - 4:30 pm | Dylan Gorman, Häffner group (UC Berkeley) Quantum simulation of spin-bath dynamics with trapped ions |
| 4:30 pm - 5:00 pm | Tyler Keating, Biedermann-Deutsch group (New Mexico/Sandia) Arbitrary Dicke-state control of symmetric Rydberg ensembles |
| 5:00 pm - 5:30 pm | Denis Seletskiy, (Konstanz) Sub-cycle quantum optics: Direct sampling of vacuum fluctuations in experiment and theory |
| 5:30 pm - 6:00 pm | Sarah Kaiser, Jennewein group (IQC, Waterloo) Towards satellite-based quantum communication: field testing the QEYSSAT payload |
| 6:00 pm - 6:30 pm | Itay Hen, (Southern California) Quantum annealing for constrained optimization |
SESSION 9b: Error correction and estimation (Pavilion I)Chair: Bryan Eastin (Northrop Grumman) | |
| 4:00 pm - 4:30 pm | Joshua Combes, (IQC, Waterloo and Perimeter) Logical randomized benchmarking |
| 4:30 pm - 5:00 pm | Andrzej Veitia, van Enk group (Oregon) Detecting memory effects in QIP architectures |
| 5:00 pm - 5:30 pm | Eleanor Rieffel, (NASA Ames) Non-commuting two-local Hamiltonians for quantum error suppression |
| 5:30 pm - 6:00 pm | Nathan Wiebe, QuArC (Microsoft) Efficient Bayesian phase estimation |
| 6:00 pm - 6:30 pm | Travis Scholten, Blume-Kohout group (Sandia) Towards a model selection rule for quantum state tomography |
SESSION 9c: Kaleidoscope of QI theoretical frontiers (Enchantment E-F)Chair: Jim Harrington (HRL) | |
| 4:00 pm - 4:30 pm | Mark Wilde, (Louisiana) Recoverability in quantum information theory |
| 4:30 pm - 5:00 pm | Jonathan A. Gross, Caves group (New Mexico) Fisher symmetry and the geometry of quantum states |
| 5:00 pm - 5:30 pm | Martin Roetteler, (Microsoft) Reversible circuit compilation with space constraints |
| 5:30 pm - 6:00 pm | Jacob Miller, Miyake group (New Mexico) Quantum computation using genuine two-dimensional symmetry-protected topological order |
| 6:00 pm - 6:30 pm | Grant Salton, Hayden group (Stanford) Spacetime replication of continuous variable quantum information |
| 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm | Steering Committee Meeting (Committee Members only) (Sierra Vista, 19th floor) |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Banquet (Grand Pavilion IV, V, VI) |
Saturday Program
| 7:00 am - 8:30 am | Continental Breakfast (Pavilion Court) |
SESSION 10: Quantum computation and quantum tunneling (Pavilion I - III)Chair: Todd Brun (Southern California) | |
| 8:30 am - 9:15 am | Seth Lloyd, (MIT) Quantum algorithms for topological data analysis |
| 9:15 am - 9:45 am | Zhang Jiang, (NASA Ames) Instantons in thermally-assisted tunneling and quantum Monte Carlo simulations |
| 9:45 am - 10:15 am | Lucas Brady, van Dam group (UC Santa Barbara) Efficient tunnelling in quantum adiabatic optimization and its quantum Monte Carlo simulations |
| 10:15 am - 10:45 am | Break (Pavilion Court) |
SESSION 11: Superconductor qubits (experiment) (Pavilion I - III)Chair: Andrew Landahl (Sandia) | |
| 10:45 am - 11:30 am | Robert Schoelkopf, (Yale) Extending the lifetime of quantum information through error correction |
| 11:30 am - 12:00 pm | Ryan Babbush, Martinis group (Google) The promise of variational quantum algorithms |
| 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm | Lunch (Grand Pavilion IV, V, VI) |
SESSION 12: Superconductor for QIP (theory) (Pavilion I - III)Chair: Emily Pritchett (HRL) | |
| 1:30 pm - 2:15 pm | Jay Gambetta, (IBM) Exploring small quantum error correcting codes with superconducting qubits |
| 2:15 pm - 2:45 pm | Eddy Timmermans, (Los Alamos) A DC-SQUID force sensor: an atomtronic proposal |
| 2:45 pm - 3:15 pm | Break (Pavilion Court) |
SESSION 13: Atomic, molecular, optical physics (experiment) (Pavilion I - III)Chair: Poul Jessen (Arizona) | |
| 3:15 pm - 3:45 pm | Michael Gould, Fu group (Washington) Enhanced emission of zero-phonon line photons from a single nitrogen-vacancy center in diamond |
| 3:45 pm - 4:15 pm | Tian Zhong, Faraon Group (IQIM, Caltech) Broadband nanophotonic quantum interface with a cavity-protected rare-earth ensemble |
| 4:15 pm - 4:45 pm | Hector Sosa Martinez, Jessen group (Arizona) Optimal strategies for quantum state and process tomography: efficiency versus robustness |
| 4:45 pm - 5:15 pm | Laura De Lorenzo, Schwab group (IQIM, Caltech) Exploring the macroscopic quantum physics of motion with superfluid He-4 |
SESSION 14: Future of QI (keynote talk) (Pavilion I-III)Chair: Ivan Deutsch (New Mexico) | |
| 5:30 pm - 6:15 pm | John Preskill, (IQIM, Caltech) Our quantum future |
